Sentences with phrase «growth on a finite planet»

If we are to pull out of the suicide - pact fantasy economy of perpetual, exponential growth on a finite planet, it's time to grow up and move on.

Growth on a Finite Planet — So Far, So Good Is recent human progress won on at the cost of sustained well - being?

A field of study (Economics) based on insane assumptions (e.g., infinite growth on a finite planet is both possible and desirable) is an insane field of study.

Peretto, P. F. and S. Valente (2015): «Growth on a finite planet: Resources, technology and population in the long run,» Journal of Economic Growth, 20, 305 - 331.

Our unregulated capitalist system of infinite economic growth on a finite planet is driving the increase of fossil fuel emissions beyond the planet's ecological limits.

Demanding constant growth on a finite planet is suicidal.

It is not possible to have infinite growth on a finite planet.

It is true that the coming years won't be pleasant, as our society and economy hits the wall and then realigns around what was always an obvious reality: You can not have infinite growth on a finite planet.

Remember this: the core proposition our economic model is based on is a simple but impossible concept — infinite growth on a finite planet.

We can argue about what they are and when they will hit, but the idea of an infinite growth on a finite planet is quite delusional.

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By uncritically supporting these policies, we are unwittingly perpetuating the neoliberal fantasy of infinite growth on a finite planet.

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Those who continue to cling to the fatally flawed infinite economic growth within a resource finite biosphere won't have much to cling to as we witness the outcome of the laws of basic arithmitic, physics, and chemistry on this planet overwhelmed by artificially supported human population and resource exploitation.

Critics of the global system have long been asserting that undirected economic growth on a planet with finite resources and sinks is unsustainable.

Even those who accepted that on a finite planet there must be some limits usually assumed that growth would merely level off as we approached them.

Have you guys ever considered, that a sheer profit oriented economic system, guided by an infinite growth paradigm (on a finite planet) will cause more and ever more problems?

by Deborah McNamara on January 30, 2014 1 Dan O'Neill economic solutions Enough is Enough finite growth people and planet Rob Dietz sustainable economy

Alternatively, we could describe climate change as one aspect of a system of human growth (in population, energy use, resource use, economic activity, etc) and the many ways in which that growth is constrained on a finite planet.

Our generation of elders appears to be doing a woefully inadequate job of helping our children understand that the current, relentless, business - as - usual effort to grow the global economy, given the gigantic scale and anticipated growth rate of the economic globalization, could soon become patently unsustainable on a small, finite planet with the size and make - up of Earth.

Yes of course infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet.

In the long run, for the population on a finite planet, the long run growth rate of any physically meaningful quantity is zero.

Does anyone at all in conventional economics and the broader community realise that growth can not go on forever in a finite land or on a finite planet?

Kenneth Boulding, economist and President Kennedy's Environmental Advisor 1966 (lived 1910 — 1993) «Anyone who believes in indefinite growth of anything physical on a physically finite planet is either a madman or an economist.»

Remember, we live on a «finite planet», which means there is no such thing as «sustainable long term growth».

A finite planet with the size, composition and environs of the Earth and a community with the boundaries, limited resources and wondrous climate of villages, towns and cities where we live may not be able to sustain much longer the economic and population growth that is occurring on our watch.